Comments on: How To Customize Internet Explorer 8 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/ Blogging about our company, our users and our future plans. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:48:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BlueEchoes http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 BlueEchoes Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:07:58 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1075 With netbooks being so popular, when will Microsoft add real customizing to IE8 so we can make one row of tool bars instead 2, 3, 4, 7 that IE8 has now. Why no Home button next to the address line? I go to websites to view the sites. I am a photographer, I go to see visuals on the site. I do not use IE8 so I can continuously see row upon row of toolbars and then have to scroll to view an image. Chrome, one row. Firefox, one row, IE1/3 of the screen of junk when using a netbook. Is anyone at Microsoft listening? With netbooks being so popular, when will Microsoft add real customizing to IE8 so we can make one row of tool bars instead 2, 3, 4, 7 that IE8 has now. Why no Home button next to the address line?

I go to websites to view the sites. I am a photographer, I go to see visuals on the site. I do not use IE8 so I can continuously see row upon row of toolbars and then have to scroll to view an image.

Chrome, one row. Firefox, one row, IE1/3 of the screen of junk when using a netbook.

Is anyone at Microsoft listening?

]]> By: kevin http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 kevin Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:42:34 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1067 Does the MS 'Team' think people change a lot and therefore reinvent the usabiliy in each browser version? Their usability philosophy is still in development mode. MS does not listen to users (of diff needs) and does not keep things that work well and are useful. Ditto for the 'ribbon'. Is MS run by crap coders or managers that try to innovate (i.e. make some wheels squarish)? Maybe marketing need changes to justify their role with the argument that people wont buy it if its the same old same old. I've used Word (on Pc) since first versions. I have developed workarounds for its many failings. BUT it was custoimiseable to suit ME. Now it is not and I work much SLOWER. Before I could put an icon on the toolbar for obscure but important and often used settings (that professional such as tech writers like me needed). Now I have to RTFM! Interestingly, --perhaps because Activex is not on the Mac?-- the latest Mac version IS customiseable (ilke the good old days) and does not have a ribbon! Does the MS ‘Team’ think people change a lot and therefore reinvent the usabiliy in each browser version? Their usability philosophy is still in development mode. MS does not listen to users (of diff needs) and does not keep things that work well and are useful. Ditto for the ‘ribbon’.

Is MS run by crap coders or managers that try to innovate (i.e. make some wheels squarish)? Maybe marketing need changes to justify their role with the argument that people wont buy it if its the same old same old.

I’ve used Word (on Pc) since first versions. I have developed workarounds for its many failings. BUT it was custoimiseable to suit ME.

Now it is not and I work much SLOWER. Before I could put an icon on the toolbar for obscure but important and often used settings (that professional such as tech writers like me needed). Now I have to RTFM!

Interestingly, –perhaps because Activex is not on the Mac?– the latest Mac version IS customiseable (ilke the good old days) and does not have a ribbon!

]]> By: Gary http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Gary Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:24:40 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1063 I wont upgrade to IE7 or IE8 till I find a way to move the forward reverse buttons to the extreme right end of the tool bar. I can find no instructions to do that. Till then IE6 is working for me. I wont upgrade to IE7 or IE8 till I find a way to move the forward reverse buttons to the extreme right end of the tool bar. I can find no instructions to do that. Till then IE6 is working for me.

]]> By: ryan http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 ryan Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:11:45 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1051 Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to move the address bar above the Google toolbar. I have IE8 and before, I was able to move the toolbars around and now I can't. So if anyone knows how to do this, please tell me how. Thanks! Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to move the address bar above the Google toolbar. I have IE8 and before, I was able to move the toolbars around and now I can’t. So if anyone knows how to do this, please tell me how. Thanks!

]]> By: Brighton user http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1043 Brighton user Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:35:26 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1043 Disappointed by it's inflexibility, I have taken the advice to try Firefox instead and having now used it, I cannot understand why anyone would want to use Explorer 8, let alone endorse it. Firefox is more intuitive and far faster. Goodbye Explorer8 and the so called experts who extoll its non-existent virtues. Disappointed by it’s inflexibility, I have taken the advice to try Firefox instead and having now used it, I cannot understand why anyone would want to use Explorer 8, let alone endorse it. Firefox is more intuitive and far faster. Goodbye Explorer8 and the so called experts who extoll its non-existent virtues.

]]> By: Christine http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1038 Christine Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:02:44 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1038 I just downloaded IE 8 an am very irritated by a few things. The BIGGEST being...I want the "HOME" button to be located as it was in earlier versions; to the immediate right of the "refresh" and "stop" buttons!! At the moment in IE 8... the "home" button is located on the far right of the bottom toolbar! This is a HUGE inconvenience!! Does anyone know how to relocate it? I have already tried the drag & drop routine, to no avail! I just downloaded IE 8 an am very irritated by a few things. The BIGGEST being…I want the “HOME” button to be located as it was in earlier versions; to the immediate right of the “refresh” and “stop” buttons!!
At the moment in IE 8… the “home” button is located on the far right of the bottom toolbar! This is a HUGE inconvenience!!
Does anyone know how to relocate it? I have already tried the drag & drop routine, to no avail!

]]> By: johnbrown001 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 johnbrown001 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:06:32 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1026 I agree with everyone here that ie8 is crap because it can't be customized. My solution is Firefox when they finalize their beta for Windows 7. I agree with everyone here that ie8 is crap because it can’t be customized.

My solution is Firefox when they finalize their beta for Windows 7.

]]> By: eyeresist http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 eyeresist Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:23:12 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-1005 Thanks to my work admin, I am stuck with IE8. I swear IE has been going downhill since 4.5... Toolbars seem to be less customisable than before: the address bar is at the top of the screen and you can't move it. The search bar, which I never use, can't be removed. The favourites button can't be removed. I can't move/remove any toolbar icons (unlike in Word, for instance). The address bar will only drop down if autocomplete is enabled. I hate autocomplete. Drop down addresses are displayed in large retard font, and there is an INVISIBLE delete button beside each address (to the right). The Compatability Mode icon keeps flashing up messages I don't need to see. OTOH, we get "searchability", which seems to me to be enabling stupidity - you can now do so many different things from the address bar that it's impossible to tell what you're doing. Whoopdedoo. Thanks to my work admin, I am stuck with IE8. I swear IE has been going downhill since 4.5…
Toolbars seem to be less customisable than before: the address bar is at the top of the screen and you can’t move it. The search bar, which I never use, can’t be removed. The favourites button can’t be removed. I can’t move/remove any toolbar icons (unlike in Word, for instance).
The address bar will only drop down if autocomplete is enabled. I hate autocomplete. Drop down addresses are displayed in large retard font, and there is an INVISIBLE delete button beside each address (to the right). The Compatability Mode icon keeps flashing up messages I don’t need to see.
OTOH, we get “searchability”, which seems to me to be enabling stupidity – you can now do so many different things from the address bar that it’s impossible to tell what you’re doing. Whoopdedoo.

]]> By: Robert http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Robert Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:24 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-930 It is apparently impossible to move the command toolbar to the left of the favorites toolbar. You can move the command bar above the favorites or below it, or even to the right. But no way can you get the command bar to the left of favorites. That makes no sense to me at all. Such limited ability to arrange the toolbars is worse than no ability to do so. It is apparently impossible to move the command toolbar to the left of the favorites toolbar. You can move the command bar above the favorites or below it, or even to the right. But no way can you get the command bar to the left of favorites. That makes no sense to me at all. Such limited ability to arrange the toolbars is worse than no ability to do so.

]]> By: sharon http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/how-to-customize-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-889 sharon Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:39:15 +0000 http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/?p=225#comment-889 ie 7 stinks ie 8 stinks now i get free windows 8 what the heck is that doing to do? i too want ie6 back and may go back i hate the star and wasted space. take up all my windows room i do apprciente the alt/enter soluition to hide the entire thing. i think i can live with that. i hated bing and took forever to get rid of it. and now since adding ie8 i had to copy and paste url BECAUSE ::::::::::::::::::: GOOGLE SAID IT WAS NOT A SAFE SITE... WHAT THE HECK??? I HAVE NORTON TO TELL ME WHAT IS SAFE DONT NEED FREAKING GOOGLE TELLING WHERE I CAN AND CAN NOT GO. IF I WANT TO LOOK AT PORN THAT IS MY DECISION. IF I WANT TO LOOK AT THE BIBLE THAT IS MY DECISION. IF I WANT TO LOOK AT BOOT LEGGED MOVIES THAT IS MY DECISION I AM BEGINGIN TO RE-THINK THIS WHOLE THING AND TRY MONZILLA FIREFOX OR SAFARI... I HATE HOTMAIL MSN, WINDOWS LIVE, AND ANY ADD ON THAT POPS UP ON MY COMPUTER WITH OUT MY KNOWLEDGE SHARON ie 7 stinks
ie 8 stinks

now i get free windows 8
what the heck is that doing to do?

i too want ie6 back and may go back
i hate the star and wasted space.
take up all my windows room

i do apprciente the alt/enter soluition to hide the entire thing. i think i can live with that.
i hated bing and took forever to get rid of it.
and now since adding ie8 i had to copy and paste url
BECAUSE :::::::::::::::::::

GOOGLE SAID IT WAS NOT A SAFE SITE… WHAT THE HECK??? I HAVE NORTON TO TELL ME WHAT IS SAFE DONT NEED FREAKING GOOGLE TELLING WHERE I CAN AND CAN NOT GO. IF I WANT TO LOOK AT PORN THAT IS MY DECISION. IF I WANT TO LOOK AT THE BIBLE THAT IS MY DECISION. IF I WANT TO LOOK AT BOOT LEGGED MOVIES THAT IS MY DECISION

I AM BEGINGIN TO RE-THINK THIS WHOLE THING AND TRY MONZILLA FIREFOX OR SAFARI… I HATE HOTMAIL MSN, WINDOWS LIVE, AND ANY ADD ON THAT POPS UP ON MY COMPUTER WITH OUT MY KNOWLEDGE

SHARON

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